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DDCLIENT
DDclient is a Perl client application used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on Dynamic DNS Network Service Provider. It was originally written by Paul Burry.. It has the capability to update more than just dyndns, and it can detecct your external ip address in a few different ways.

According to cudeso.be:

DDclient is a small but full featured client requiring only Perl and no additional modules. It runs under most UNIX OSes and has been tested under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Supported features include: operating as a daemon, manual and automatic updates, static and dynamic updates, optimized updates for multiple addresses, MX, wildcards, abuse avoidance, retrying failed updates, and sending update status to syslog and through e-mail.

Installation
Most Linux distributions have a recent version of ddclient. Use it unless you really need the latest version. On debian-based systems you can run

Configuration
If you installed ddclient by using the installer of your distribution, it probably already asked you some questions and prepared a useful config file.

There are a few configuration examples provided which you can copy to  and modify. More info about the configuration can be found on the usage page. There's also a sample configuration delivered with ddclient.

A typical configuration like: # protocol=dyndns2 use=web login=mylogin password=mypassword myhost.dyndns.org You can run ddclient as  and put it in your startup scripts. There are samples of startup scripts provided with ddclient. Most distributions provide a generic startup sample. You can change it to work with ddclient. As there are to many different distributions, ddclient doesn't maintain all of them.
 * 1) /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

Documentation
The documentation about the configuration has been split into three sections. The usage page describes the most parts of the configuration while the supported protocols page describes the protocol-specific options. If you want to know how to use ddclient with your router, check the supported routers.

Debugging ddclient looks pretty hard but it isn't. First try to put as less as necessary in your configuration. Try to run ./ddclient -daemon=0 -noquiet -debug and check the result. Try to add the features you need and check it again.

Once you're happy with the result, run it as a daemon.

If this doesn't work for you, there are a few places where you can look for help. If you need any help in configuring ddclient,

You could try ddclient --help. It should give you all the possible configuration options so.

If you think your configuration is correct, but ddclient doesn't work as you expected, you can enable debug and verbose messages by running ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet We know the manual is not very clear, you have to read the example configurations included in the tar-file or you can run  to get more help.